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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals · today 05:31 EDT

Anthropic refused a $200M Pentagon weapons contract — now startups are racing to build what it wouldn’t

Anthropic's $200 million Pentagon contract collapsed over autonomous weapons limits. Now startups like Smack Technologies are raising millions to build what frontier AI labs refused — while research shows current AI systems escalate conflicts and cannot distinguish combatants from civilians.

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